headless chicken

Lately I feel I've been running around like a headless chicken, going "AHHH I have so much to dooooo!" and not actually doing anything.

SO!

Today I went for a buffet, then to the pub. :D

But then I went home, cleaned my room, sorted my notes, sent out a couple of mass e-mails to the martial arts lists, sorted out the martial arts message board, asked for volunteers to moderate and speak to me about the webpage, and sent a very long e-mail about starting a self defence class for women, that will happen a few times a year for 1 or 2 days. It's an idea I've had in my head for a long time and I've spoken to a lot of people about it, but never done anything about it officially. I want to get the ball on the ground and rolling!

Tasks for tomorrow: Turn up on time for meeting, prinht out notes for lectures that don't provide notes, get started on Communiations.

...and here comes the number one question....

why do I torture myself?

grrrr.

In other news I went to watch Seven Swords today with Ahmed, Steve, Antonio and his girlfriend, and some other of Steve's friends. It was rubbish! It made very little sense. And it was in Mandarin when I was told it'd be in Cantonese.

I've got Steve's black belt right now, but I've got to pass it onto Pete. :( I get so sad when I look at it. I don't even get his brown belt 'cause Ahmed laid claim to it.

Sneezy

Wow I'm so sneezy right now...

I've had an action-packed weekend starting with waking up at 8am on Saturday morning then lying in until 10 just because I could.

Ohkay, just sneezed 5 times in a row and feel another coming on... these are big lung-emptying sneezes as well.

Anyway, then I got up and made a birthday card, went to meet a friend to go to Matalan to buy a red polka dot dress that I saw in Heat (my flatmate reads it... I couldn't help myself when I saw the polka dot dresses!)... but they didn't have it. Which made me quite sad. Then we wandered around Princes Street trying to find presents for Hannah. Then we went to play laserquest for Hannah's birthday, which was awesome, then to the pub. After that I went to Ahmed's for his birthday and hung around until about 3 when I went home, took a shower, and collapsed into bed until about 12.

At 12 I got up, had some oatmeal, went to the shops to buy some more card making material, made a going away card for Steve, went to karate, went to the pub, went to a dinner buffet as a going away party for Steve, and then to the pub. Then I came home and wrote this.

Man I have so much work to do....

in other news I was talking to my (very doped up) Sensei at Ahmed's party and I have a feeling he thinks I'm a flirt... not with him... but with the boys in karate! He said I was the most elusive girl in the club... whatever that means!

I think my reputation is being smirched. At the pub today we were talking about Steve being a karate slut (not really, it's just 'cause he's been there so long that over the course of time he's managed to get with x number of girls which amounts to just under a girl very 2 years), and Scott said to me "Aren't you a Jitsu slut?" I was like "What? No!" and he was like "Aren't there like, 3?" and I was like "No!"

My my.

Man, I'm shattered.

I've got a cold coming through. BUT! I'm going to Matalan tomorrow to try out a polka dot dress. :D

!

1) Rumour dispelled after nice chat with someone I haven't chatted to in a while

2) Crags conquered. Pictures to come.

3) Memoirs watched. OK. Not terrible, but not brilliant. Mostly forgettable.

Afterwards, someone I'd just met drove me home! From some brilliant coincidence, Hannah (who I went with)'s friend was at the cinema with her boyfriend, and he offered us a lift to marchmont, but instead of dropping us off there he took me home. Chivalrous! Not much seen in this day and age. I wholly approve.

Things that piss me off

= people who don't listen to me when I'm saying something or asking them to do something. Because they can't be bothered. Then they either ask me more stupid questions or mess up whatever it is that I asked them to do. Thus making my life harder.

Note that this tends to be males.

I don't want to take advice from fools

Till I hear it from you
Gin Blossoms

I didn't ask
They shouldn't have told me
At first I'd laugh, but now
It's sinking in fast
Whatever they've sold me
Well baby I don't want to take advice from fools
I'll just figure everything is cool
Until I hear it from you
It gets hard
The memory's faded
Who gets what they say
It's likely they're just jealous and jaded
Well maybe I don't want to take advice from fools
I'll just figure everything is cool
Until I hear it from you
Until I hear it from you
I can't let it get me off
Or break up my train of thought
As far as I know, nothing's wrong
Until I hear it from you
Still thinking about not living without it
Outside looking in
Til we're talking about it, not stepping around it
Maybe I don't want to take advice from fools
I'll just figure everything is cool
Until I hear it from you...

Struggling

I'm struggling to be cheerful today - it's been a long week.

I'm really bored with uni at the moment - last semester was great becuase the subjects I was taking were really interesting, but this semester I can't seem to get motivated.  I'm already halfway through the semester as well.  The temporary euphoria on Tuesday faded quickly.

I heard some interesting gossip yesterday concerning someone I was once really close to.  I've decided to dismiss it considering the source but it's hard. I will keep my ears open.

I think its time to re-dye my hair.

Before I go gloating off to bed, I must say why the gloating!

I won a bronze medal in BUSA this year! True I only won one fight to get it but I'm happy because during that fight I managed to switch on my brain and change my style to win back points and eventually overtake the poor confused girl. I have since been showing everyone my winning moves. If only I'd done that earlier in my first match I might be gloating about a silver or even a gold!

Because of the above my name is now in the paper (albeit the student one)! I plan on sending a cutting to my parents - my mom will probably be a bit annoyed as this will give me even more incentive to carry on doing karate and injuring myself, and I think my dad might be proud.

Today (yesterday) was Valentine's day and I spent it in the computer labs doing work. Whilst there I collected a couple of valentine tokens... one sheet of paper with a heart drawn on it and "Guess who?" written on the bottom, one long-stemmed wilting red flower (I hesitate to call it a rose, it is unthorned and quite small), and made and handed out origami hearts made out of scrap paper from the printer and the Student newspaper. Oh, and I also got an electronic ASCII heart through facebook. Tee hee!

Off gloating I therefore go.

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mwa ha ha ha

I should really go to sleep but...

I'm talking to my lovely cuz about boys! Because we are, afterall, dippy girls. ;)

Got rejected from *big investment bank* but am not too upset. I wasn't really *banking* on it (ha ha, get it?).

It was a good experience though, stayed in a nice hotel, met some people I'll probably never see again in my life but had a good chat and we supported each other, which was nice.

One of the other candidates looked really familiar, and we figured out we must've bumped into each other at least once at the University open days 3 years ago! How random is that... It must've been twice if I remembered him. We both went to the York and Birmingham open days.

Haha I discovered facebook yesterday... and have been friending people from a very long time ago. Also sneakily on the sly checking out ex's profile. Some random things there.

*wibble*

"1-2-3-4, I declare a thumb war!"

That is about the only fighting I feel I can safely do at the moment.

My ankle is holding up admirably well, especially considering I was toddling about in heels last night! I put my ankle support on after dinner as Gavin taught me some jive, and went on to do some not-so-fancy dancing with the Jitsu club. Awww we loves 'em!

Tonight during training I got kicked really hard by a giant of a guy and have a bruised elbow to show for it. It's kinda funny when I put ice on it... my fingers get numb! I did manage to kick him in the head, though! Ha ha.

I've also managed to bruise my left foot's sticky outy bit just under the little toe, it is purple. Also my right big toe is sore because I keep on going over it. My toe is too big!

Anyway, to bed now as I have training tomorrow morning..... ack. :(